MUMBAI: Citing a ballistic expert’s cogent evidence and holding that former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma headed an “illegal squad”, Bombay high court on Tuesday convicted him in the 18-year-old fake encounter killing of Ramnarayan Gupta, alias Lakhan Bhaiya, an alleged Chhota Rajan gang member.Sentencing Sharma to life imprisonment, HC directed him to surrender in…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and top judges of Supreme Court are in the process of devising a mechanism to objectively identify ‘super performers‘ among judicial officers in trial courts, which at present is groaning under a massive load of nearly 4.5 crore cases.With around 20,000-odd trial judges across India disposing 13 lakh…
BENGALURU: Highlighting demanding nature of motherhood, Karnataka HC in a recent judgment ruled in favour of a woman and her two children, and hiked her maintenance cost.Justice M Nagaprasanna granted the woman Rs 36,000 per month in maintenance from her husband, a manager in a nationalised bank, instead of Rs 18,000 per month awarded by…
NEW DELHI: Days after the sudden demise of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia posted a photo on Instagram with the caption “I love you”.The post on Instagram showed a picture of the two together, their heads touching as they watched a performance of some kind.Yulia posted the photo a day after Russian…
NEW DELHI: In an effort to stop Calcutta high court judges from washing dirty linen in public, Supreme Court on Saturday stayed all proceedings before HC’s single judge and division bench relating to a fake caste certificate scam in medical college admissions. The court said it would decide whether a CBI probe is needed when…
AYODHYA : Retired members of the SC constitution bench that delivered the landmark 2019 judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case have been invited to Jan 22 consecration of the Ram temple.Apart from then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, invitations have been sent to his now-retired successor SA Bobde, and former judges Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul…
NEW DELHI: It was no surprise that soon after retirement, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul termed the collegium system of selecting constitutional court judges as not the best mechanism even though he had vigorously and successfully pushed many names as part of the Supreme Court and high court collegiums.Judiciary insiders said his apparent disillusionment probably stemmed…
WARSAW: A South Korean loan to Poland to finance arms deals does not actually exist, Poland’s prime minister said on Wednesday, although the new government hopes to still continue with the purchases. “There was a problem with the Korean purchases… a significant part of the Korean purchases was to be financed by a loan that…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court‘s disposal of pending cases scaled a new high as the 34 judges, including CJI D Y Chandrachud, disposed of 52,191 cases as against 49,191 cases registered with the apex court this year from across the country. Last year, SC had disposed of 39,800 cases as against 36,565 cases filed.Data available from…
